Black Riders
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A Thing of Beauty
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Aestheticism
American poetry
Aphorism
Ars Poetica (Horace)
Arts and Crafts movement
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Bertolt Brecht
Book
Book design
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Charles Olson
Christina Rossetti
Couplet
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Denise Levertov
Djuna Barnes
Dover Publications
Dramatic Lyrics
Dramatic monologue
E. P. Thompson
Emily Dickinson
English poetry
Epic theatre
Epigram
Epithet
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Essay
Ezra Pound
Facsimile
Fiction
Goblin Market and Other Poems
Henry David Thoreau
Internal rhyme
Jack Spicer
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Literariness
Literary criticism
Literature
Lyn Hejinian
Lyrical Ballads
Manuscript
Mary Shelley
Nominalism
Novel
Parable
Paradox
Parody
Philosophical Investigations
Philosophy of language
Phoneme
Plato
Poetry
Postmodern philosophy
Postmodernism
Pragmaticism
Printing
Prose
Pythagoreanism
Reader-response criticism
Reflections on Language
Romance novel
Romanticism
Subtext
Subtitle (captioning)
Susan Howe
Textual criticism
The Lady of Shalott
The Soul of the World
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Train of thought
William Blake
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691015446
- Weight: 312g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 06 Jun 1993
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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"English literature," Yeats once noted, "has all but completely shaped itself in the printing press." Finding this true particularly of modernist writing, Jerome McGann demonstrates the extraordinary degree to which modernist styles are related to graphic and typographic design, to printed letters--"black riders" on a blank page--that create language for the eye. He sketches the relation of modernist writing to key developments in book design, beginning with the nineteenth-century renaissance of printing, and demonstrates the continued interest of postmodern writers in the "visible language" of modernism. McGann then offers a philosophical investigation into the relation of knowledge and truth to this kind of imaginative writing. Exploring the work of writers like William Morris, Emily Dickinson, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein, as well as Laura Riding and Bob Brown, he shows how each exploits the visibilities of language, often by aligning their work with older traditions of so-called Adamic language. McGann argues that in modernist writing, philosophical nominalism emerges as a key aesthetic point of departure.
Such writing thus develops a pragmatic and performative "answer to Plato" in the matter of poetry's relation to truth and philosophy.
Jerome McGann, Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is well known for his unique approach to printed texts as historical and physical artifacts. His many books include A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism (Virginia).
